Weird Medieval Guys and similar accounts (such as and on Instagram) have attracted the notice of scholars, too, who welcome the attention to their discipline. Bibliothèques d’Amiens Métropole, France, ms 108 fol. It didn’t take long for the account to blow up. She spent a year sourcing images and poring over digitized manuscripts before posting the first tweet. She told us that her experience working as an intern digitizing historical photos in the archives of an American institution led her to appreciate the importance of uploading collections online to increase access. Who is behind Weird Medieval Guys? The American Academy in Rome respects the creator’s desire to stay anonymous, but we can reveal she is a twenty-two-year-old Scottish woman who launched the account “purely for the sake of sharing with the world.” Born and raised on the internet (as all of Gen Z is), she has a passion for art history. They suit today’s intensely visual form of expression. With their frequent depictions of animals doing amusing activities, medieval images seem to anticipate internet culture.
The images are also conscientiously cited with links to the source material: the British Library, the Albertina in Vienna, the Morgan Library and Museum, and others. The humor of the account is that of the internet: it is niche, visual, a little self-indulgent. 12th century” to “ a boar wearing pants, france, 14th century.” Examples range from “ extremely rotund hedgehog, italy, 14th century” to “ crazy frog, france, 13th century” to “ cat churning butter, germany, ca. The account has brought centuries-old images, mostly from the marginalia of illuminated manuscripts, into the feeds of millions. The account, called Weird Medieval Guys, has over five hundred thousand followers, having more than quadrupled in growth in mere months. One viral Twitter account is spreading joy through the unlikely source of European medieval art. With apocalyptic news updates and eerily personalized ads, social media platforms have lost the charm they once held-but perhaps not completely.
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